Comments on: Four financial tricks to make your child money-savvy http://www.greatdad.com/greatdadblog/2008/03/05/four-financial-tricks-to-make-your-child-money-savvy/ Because dads don't always think like moms. Sat, 06 Mar 2010 14:12:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: James di Properzio http://www.greatdad.com/greatdadblog/2008/03/05/four-financial-tricks-to-make-your-child-money-savvy/comment-page-1/#comment-30 James di Properzio Fri, 07 Mar 2008 02:37:04 +0000 http://blogs.greatdad.com/2008/03/05/four-financial-tricks-to-make-your-child-money-savvy.html/#comment-30 I agree. The obsession in our culture with *new* things is especially ridiculous to say nothing of bad for the environment. We need to teach our children and ourselves that new gadgets, new clothes, new furniture does not create new happiness. My daughters grumble about it but we try to shop at secondhand stores like Goodwill as often as possible. I agree. The obsession in our culture with *new* things is especially ridiculous to say nothing of bad for the environment. We need to teach our children and ourselves that new gadgets, new clothes, new furniture does not create new happiness. My daughters grumble about it but we try to shop at secondhand stores like Goodwill as often as possible.

]]> By: Paul Maurice Martin http://www.greatdad.com/greatdadblog/2008/03/05/four-financial-tricks-to-make-your-child-money-savvy/comment-page-1/#comment-29 Paul Maurice Martin Thu, 06 Mar 2008 22:51:45 +0000 http://blogs.greatdad.com/2008/03/05/four-financial-tricks-to-make-your-child-money-savvy.html/#comment-29 We're basically in the process of eating this planet like a cookie. Unless people can get beyond obsession with material goods, things are going to get very ugly on this planet. I feel good, personally, that I'll be gone well before the first quarter of this century. We're the only species that's prey to nothing and seem to think we can expand the human population forever even though we're on a finite sphere. If we don't learn to control our own population, it'll be done for us - the hard way. So to me, there are two aspects to the problem: our extreme consumerism and our population. If we could curb the former it would buy us time to begin to address the latter. We’re basically in the process of eating this planet like a cookie. Unless people can get beyond obsession with material goods, things are going to get very ugly on this planet. I feel good, personally, that I’ll be gone well before the first quarter of this century.

We’re the only species that’s prey to nothing and seem to think we can expand the human population forever even though we’re on a finite sphere. If we don’t learn to control our own population, it’ll be done for us – the hard way.

So to me, there are two aspects to the problem: our extreme consumerism and our population. If we could curb the former it would buy us time to begin to address the latter.

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